04 December 2014

For more than 18 months, engineers have been carefully piecing together the many components that make up ESA's Sentinel-3A satellite. Now hosting an array of instruments to provide a wealth of information about Earth's oceans and land, the satellite is complete, standing proud for testing.

05 December 2014

NASA/JAXA's TRMM satellite and the RapidScat instrument provided rainfall and wind data of Super Typhoon Hagupit on approach to the Philippines, while NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided a visible image of the storm. In the Philippines, Hagupit is known locally as "Typhoon Ruby."

03 December 2014

Over the last two years, the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy has made gathering visible and invisible information about the Earth a priority. Now, the office is looking for a way to capture that data from the sky for less.

04 December 2014

Airbus Defence and Space has agreed to sell its SPOT 7 medium-resolution optical Earth observation satellite, which just finished in-orbit checkout, to Azerbaijan's Azercosmos space agency as part of a long-term partnership in commercial remote sensing, Airbus and Azercosmos announced 2 December.

12 - 17 April 2015

Organisation: European Geosciences Union (EGU)

Location: Vienna, Austria

Conference Overview:

The EGU General Assembly 2015 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience.

This database is based on the book of Herbert J. Kramer Observation of the Earth and its Environments and describes over 600 missions in detail. Online updated version of "Earth Observation History of Technical Introduction" available as of January 02, 2017.